Line drawing of three male and two female figures, a plinth with a sculpture on top and a window with open shutters. Etching printed in black ink (Charbonnel Black) from a copper plate. It was made just after the artist had moved to Glasgow from Northumberland.
In an interview with Glasgow Print Studio on 21st June 2010, the artist explained that the print was about “the idea of living with a piece of art”. He had planned at that time to buy a cottage and call it Chez Nous Cottage, quite a crummy, cheesy name “I was trying to embrace that cheesiness”. Wiszniewski describes the scene as “a slightly bohemian environment, with at the same time celebrating a piece of modernist art because it’s a sculpture by Barnett Newman [Broken Obilisk, 1963]. The obelisk is a symbol of death and birth so it’s an interesting piece of sculpture. I’ve miniaturised it and turned it into an objet d’art.”
